TERTIAN. | QUARTAN. | ESTIVO-AUTUMNAL. ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Asexual cycle, | Seventy-two hours. | Usually twenty-four forty-eight hours. | | to forty-eight hours. ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Substance pale, | Highly refractive, | Highly refractive. transparent, | comparable to waxy | comparable to hyaline | tube-cast. | tube-cast. | | ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Outline indistinct. | Distinct. | Distinct. ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Ameboid motion | Sluggish. | Active. active. | | ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Mature asexual form | Smaller. | Young forms, only, in large; fills and | | peripheral blood. often distends | | corpuscle. | | ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Pigment-granules | Much coarser, darker | Very few, minute, fine, brown, | in color, | inactive. Distinctly scattered throughout. | peripherally | pigmented forms Very active dancing | arranged. Motion | seldom seen. motion. | slight. | ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Segmenting body | Usually typical | Not seen in rarely assumes | "daisy." 6 to 12 | peripheral blood. typical "daisy" form. | segments. | 15 to 20 segments. | | ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Gametes resemble | Same as tertian. | Appear in blood as asexual forms. | | distinctive ovoids | | and crescents. ----------------------+----------------------+---------------------- Red corpuscles pale | Generally darker | Dark, often bronzed. and swollen. | than normal. | ----------------------+----------------------+----------------------